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“We have decided not to air this week's episode of Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly," Tully writes. "Over the last few days, we have listened intently to Sandy Hook parents [and] considered the deep emotions from the wounds of that day that have yet to heal.”

NBC and Kelly have been under fire since the decision to interview Jones was made public. Jones, 43, has previously claimed that the 2012 Newtown school shooting, where 20 children and six adults were killed, was a hoax. WVIT's coverage area includes Newtown, Conn.

Sandy Hook Promise, an anti-gun violence group, said it had asked Kelly to step down as host of its Wednesday-night gala in Washington.

“The group cannot support Kelly or NBC's decision to give a platform to Jones and hopes NBC reconsiders its plan to broadcast the interview,” said Nicole Hockley, co-founder and managing director. Hockley, whose 6-year-old son Dylan was killed at Sandy Hook, founded the organization with Mark Barden, who lost his 7-year-old son Daniel.

Megyn Kelly has defended the decision to conduct and air the interview, while also slamming Jones’ hoax claims of the Sandy Hook shooting.

“I find Alex Jones’s suggestion that Sandy Hook was ‘a hoax’ as personally revolting as every other rational person does,” Kelly said in a statement. “Our goal in sitting down with him was to shine a light — as journalists are supposed to do — on this influential figure, and yes — to discuss the considerable falsehoods he has promoted with near impunity.”

WVIT says it will include a report on the Kelly-Jones interview in its Sunday night 11 p.m. broadcast.